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Luke pushing Jess in the lake wasn't a power move. it was a genuine sudden expression of frustration, and it spoke to Jess because it was *genuine*. that's why he liked that spot later. he hates dealing with people putting on false faces.

I think that Lorelai knows she has a certain effect on people and can use that to act a bit narcissistic. I loved how Jess always seemed to see through that from that first conversation between them

A note on Luke creating that hole in the wall: I think it was a nice 'I'm willing to make space for you' moment from him. You can take in a kid, have them sleep on a blowup mattress, but to look for an apartment/renovate your own home for them? It was Luke's way of showing Jess, "I'm here for you, and not just in the short term."

Jess is such a missunderstood character. People love to hate on him but never seem to realize the amount of pain he was probably into

The scene where he "goes out for an hour" always seemed sad to me, I always interpreted it as something Jess is used to, we all know that Liz had many boyfriends and Jess was used to it. I think he felt unwelcomed in his our house, that's why he immediately goes out when he gets to SH. He's not used to home being a safe place where he can always do his own thing and not made feel like he's getting in the way

that scene where they hug after liz and tj's wedding brings me to tears. cause like who knows when was the last time jess got a hug from a parental figure?

In my opinion, the way Jess snapped (22:25) as soon as TJ trow away his book says A LOT! It was an instant reaction, as if Jess had to deal with this kind of stuff when he was a kid, probably with one of the many men his mom dated. This is how traumatized he was. Also the way he can see through people's facades... I mean, he can immediately tell when a person is genuine and sincere or when it's wearing a mask and pretending. This is a skill that develops when you have dealt with horrible people and you try to safeguard and protect yourself. He was right about Dean (poor Lindsay) and I'm sure he was right about Logan too, when he met him he immediately understood what kind of guy he was.

Luke’s paternal side is so much more apparent with Jess than his long lost daughter. That plot line was so annoying.

Luke and Jess are a relationship that I seriously admire. You’re right, there are little male relationships in this show, and when you compare Luke and Jess to, say, Lorelai and Rory, you can see the difference between female vs male relationships. How much women release vs how much men bottle up. Luke and Jess clearly care about each other, but they don’t say it. They don’t need it. You can feel it. You can tell just through their actions.

That's a good point to note that not a lot of people have made the argument for: dunking on the Walmart job isn't a dig at working, it's a dig at the punk working for corpos. That's way more about teasing than putting someone down in that context.

Jess suffered from abandonment of his parents, he lacked of confidence on himself. Even though he was a rebel, Luke never gave up, for the first time in his life an adult stood up for him. Jess left but his actions showed that Luke made a huge impact on his life. Season 4 episodes are my favorite, both of them worked on express their emotions.

“They have amazing communication” he’s was always so observant Kirk 🤣

The push in the lake was Jess feeling like someone cared enough about him to be mad.

i think that the relationship between Luke and Jess is the reason that the planned Jess in California spin-off series didn’t happen. I don’t think the audience would be able to sympathize with Jess’s bio-Dad after seeing his relationship and growth with Luke.

The scene between Jess and Lorelai zells us a lot about Liz: he learned with his upbringing, that men are crap, but women get rose colored glasses when they sleep with them. I think the friendship between Luke and Lorelai, that, despite their attraction, is still based on genuinely knowing each other is the first such relationship he ever saw.

I wish they did more with Luke and Jess. First, I wish we saw a storyline of Luke trying to put Jess in a more challenging school. Fans constantly see how his school is boring and Jess never feels challenged. Imagine a storyline where Jess gets into Chilton on a secret scholarship which allows him to be challenged and maybe let his guard down a bit because someone cared enough to provide him this opportunity. Also, Jess and Rory could have a better relationship, maybe a more mature one while they study together or something. I hated how people never tried to be understanding of Jess and help him. His mom neglected mom. He barely knows his dad and he feels forced to live with Luke. It makes sense that his guard is up and is rude. I really feel a school like Chilton would help so many things. It may help his confidence. He can share this with Luke. He fan find people like him and he may be motivated for college or a career path. I can still picture him being a writer in this storyline as well as the original one. I can still picture going back to the town that made him happy instead of sad. Jess did some awful stuff, but Lorelai and the townspeople should not have blamed him for the accident. It was an accident. Everyone cared that Rory was hurt but not Jess. Only Luke cares about him. He cared about Rory too, but the only one who understood it was an accident. I do like his maturity in the end and trying to be better.

This is great. Ending on the line “the have amazing communication.” Was so funny

jess didn't want to go to high school. there are other ways to go, and he ended up finding one on his own, but it would have been so much better if Luke had helped Jess with his own goals instead of trying to force him into a "one-size-fits-all" school system. Luke got a little better a few years later and acknowledged that Jess made a good move for himself, becoming a writer and publisher.

I love Jess's character development... and i also especially love Luke and Jess's relationship ❤

I know it's called Gilmore Girls but I wish they had more stories together! Jess only had Rory and Luke in his corner in a town that hated him and always put the blame on him. How ironic is it that everyone loved Dean but hated Jess if you see how their characters turned out in the OG. One married too young that cheats on his wife multiple times and the other one that worked on himself and got the best character growth in this show! Jess' jealousy to Dean was in my eyes justified if you see how much time Rory spent with Dean just right after their break up and Rory doesn't know how Dean is acting to Jess behind her back. Rory didn't believe Jess but immediatly believes Dean that they didn't fight when she went to him at his work. So, his jealousy was justified.

I would have much rather a jess and luke relationship opposed to the whole nardini storyline

It’s funny, Lorelai has no idea how to handle Jess. As others have pointed out, she never healed from her own childhood. So when faced with a kid who needs a parent instead of a friend (Lauren Graham herself said Lorelai acts as more of a friend to Rory than a parent) she panics. She panics when Rory needs a parent too circa Logan/Yale dropout. The structure and tough love that Richard and Emily try to give Rory is a foreign concept, as is the structure and tough love that Luke gives to Jess. As others have said, Jess was abandoned physically and emotionally by his parents and is met with disdain from this hive mind town. Of COURSE he is angry. Of COURSE he is avoidant. Luke (and Rory, at times) is the only person who wasn’t afraid to call him on his bs while also validating that he had been dealt a garbage hand. It is an uncomfortable thing to acknowledge but Jess is only 16 years old. This is exactly the time when he needs unconditional love. This does not excuse his behavior, obviously. This is a nuanced situation and the Gilmores have egos on them the size of Mars that inhibit them from releasing their own sense of control and superiority and giving Jess some grace. Of course the writers didn’t expound upon the relationship between Luke and Jess, it didn’t lend itself to the cyclical self fulfilling prophecy of the Gilmore lineage that they love to hound so much. (I’m an avid fan of the show but boy if they can’t be REMARKABLY tone deaf.)

Luke and Jess is a GREAT story arc and relationship. I LOVED IT.

I love Luke and Jess' relationship and your video showed exactly why. I think you can feel that the actors got along really well and genuinely liked each other, it transfers to every scene. Great work, keep it up 😊!!

Jess getting into a fight with a swan is so funny to me and he was so serious about it that it seemed goofy and that’s when I was fully sold on Jess growing away from his violent tendencies. What totally sold me on Jess and Rory as a couple and Jess as a character is when they’re working on Luke’s building and there’s rubble everywhere and he gives Rory an umbrella right border stuff falls on her

keep the Gilmore girls vids coming! your perspective is interesting

I absolutely love luke and jess relationship to me luke became the father figure that jess needed in his life 🥰😊

I would watch a show just about Luke and Jess.

I always cry in the scene about reciprocation

This is such an understated channel! I love Luke and Jess’s relationship! Awesome video keep up the great work👍👍

Jess is totally right about his mother she doesn't care about him at all

Luke and Jess will always be my favorite characters of GG because for Luke, it's endearing how he ended up being a better 'single' parent to Jess than Lorelai was with Rory. He defended Jess, letting him know he had his back. Still, he did not coddle him and this in turn, made Jess a better, more successful person. We later on see the good Luke instilled in Jess when he's the one that always tells Rory the truth the way Luke did when he constantly tried to set Jess straight. As for Jess, he constantly chose himself. It's the one thing I adored about the revival, when Jess leaves because he knows his worth and purpose is not to be tied with a homewrecker. Both Luke and Lorelai had 'trouble children' but one of them did not sugar coat the truth and set them up in a fantasy world of privilege, and it's why Jess went on to make himself and others proud.

I need a whole video on Mia being a different actress and age entirely in the seasons.

🥺 their relationship always makes me tear. Everyone needs that type of 💪 love. Also, I think I connected to this because my moms brothers where the Luke’s in my life. Specially because my dad was not around. So obviously makes me sentimental.

i had to skip the end of the video cus I'm still in season 4 but I absolutely love their relationship so I had to watch this video. Luke and Jess are so sweet to each other and when they had that moment at the end of the wedding I had to cry for a good few minutes because you can tell just how much they've both grown since their first interaction with each other. They originally gave me step-brothers vibes because of their bantering and it really wasn't until Jess started dating that I felt Luke become more of a father figure and I feel like that's a really good look at Luke's character and how he adjusts depending on what he thinks Jess needs more at that moment (a friend, a brother, a father, etc.) so it really hit me when he gave that ultimatum? I think Luke didn't expect Jess to actually take it literally and bounce on him and he takes it so hard esp. cus Jess ends up running to his biological dad when he'd been trying so hard to parent him. I'm really happy with where their relationship is at the moment and I hope it just keeps getting better from here.

Great video! To me, this is also a very noteworthy relationship that usually gets overlooked. I love that there is so much development in it also, the ups and downs, good and bad stuff, realistic and yet exceptional relationship.

Thank you for making this video ! Their relationship and Jess's character growth because of it is one of the best parts of the series to me. I never get tired of rewatching that evolution.

Jess is by far my favourite character ❤ so many people like to hate on him and completely ignore all the pain he went through. Yes, he made mistakes but when he made them, he was a *kid* that had been abandoned and tossed aside over and over and over again. I don’t think that one bad moment, one action that clearly wasn’t okay (kissing scene with Rory when she asks to stop and he doesn’t), I simply don’t think that such a moment in our teens should define the rest of our lives. Yet the Jess haters do exactly that. They cling on this moment and cannot forgive this broken, neglected *kid* who never had anybody whom he could trust until his excuse of a mother dumps him on his uncle who then shows Jess that he is worthy of being loved, that he matters. Jess grew so much. He probably has one of the best character developments on TV ever. And his and Luke’s relationship is the basis that made it all happen. So thanks for this video, it was wonderful to watch!

I also would like to make a note of a passing moment between Luke and Jess when Luke asks if he’s still into Rory. And even when Jess says no Luke gives the “I don’t buy it, but I know” look. And then Jess stays kinda confirming Luke’s suspicions. Also great full circle foreshadowing. A mirror of the relationships that already exist and implied will happen again.

This video needs more veiws its so good!

very nice Buffy reference there!! and great Gilmore Girls videos, I’ve watched this show at least 10 times and you’re bringing up so much I hadn’t put together before. really insightful. love revisiting the show through your perspective, gonna go check out your other videos 💗 keep it up

What a great analysis! Keep doing what you're doing

This was amazing to watch. Really fun. Great work ❤

I like that Jess finally grows up in the later seasons of GG. Children do grow up and you find that they make amends with the parent or guardian. I don't agree when Luke made fun of Jess about working at Walmart. The timing was not to make fun of him then. Jess was in high school and Luke's conversation should had been about Jess's school and homework. Working for an adolescense is secondary. Then Jess could not go to prom which become a reality check. The best scene in my opinion was when Luke & Jess fought by the lake. Then both walked on the bridge and Luke just push him off. Jess had agreed to saying "fine". Luke agreed to saying "okay, fine, with me too". That conversation ending in Jess in the lake was funny. Overall, children do grow up. That was a good point of those two.

I absolutely love the jess and Luke relationship, honestly I rooted for them the most. 💯💯

Great take! Love gilmore girls and look forward to more videos

You missed the part about Jess picking out Luke's tie at liz and tj's wedding and then asking him later if the tie worked out for him.

This had me bawling 😭

More Gilmore Girls videos please!!

Excellent synopsis!! Could you please the video about the relationship of Rory and Jess too? Would be very much excited and looking forward

Great, great vids, I very much would love more GG videos😎

I think the pushing in the lake was a great way to deal with a moment that would normally have been physical between two characters like that. It has physicality but avoids the feeling of threat.

i smiled through out this whole video. I just love them so much. Them and Emily was the only people done justice in the reboot.

Finally i got around to watching this one in full. I really love all the small things you noticed. I adored them since i first watched the series and my first ever fanfiction story i wrote about 13.5 years ago i centered around their platonic relationship because i just. I'm drawn to them for many reasons. The show left us wanting a little more between them i think. There was so much unsaid. And yet so much established too. I particularly love the softness of the love they each had for the other. The perfect mix of very skilled acting, especially when Milo thinks of himself as kinda the opposite kind of person as Jess in many ways... and impressively astute writing. This show understood how to write very real types of human beings. The little moment of Jess trying to ask Rory how Luke is doing when she visits him in NYC comes to mind too -- it's too hard to honestly and openly show that he cares. Just like Luke won't admit the very next episode why he didn't pack up Jess's boxes. They miss each other. But in the way very quiet and avoidant men do. Both of them were neglected it seems. Both of them (Jess and Luke) have a lot of unhealed trauma. Liz and Luke reacted in very different ways to a similar upbringing and their parents both dying when they were exceedingly young. But i love how you framed every single thing relatively positively between them even when you didn't agree with it or didn't think it was the best thing they could've said or did. Your clear affection for Luke's pride over Jess getting employee of the month made me smile a lot. Stuff like this was just golden. I completely think you're right that Jess wouldn't have read the book on love if it wasn't Luke giving it to him and well, he also had literally no one else who would give him this kind of advice. The book is why they end up with that amazing hug too btw. Because they each had so recently learned the same lesson about how to love in even platonic ways. He confides in Luke all about his I Love You too Rory and Luke genuinely tries to explain why Rory hasn't said anything back in a way I don't think had crossed Jess's mind until that heart to heart in the dark diner. One of the many issues i have with A Year In The Life is that they don't address Jess not being there for Luke & Lorelai's little middle of the night wedding. And they don't prioritize finding a way to have Milo there for that scene. I think for Lorelai, someone like Sookie not being there is not at all the same because Lorelai has Rory, her true closest platonic bond, there with her but they remind us of how good the dynamic with Jess is for Luke throughout AYITL and then Luke doesn't care that Jess isn't there for the wedding? Idk it feels wrong that they don't get one last moment of pride and sweetness. I know it's mostly all due to budget and maybe timing and schedules but. It is one more thing that just felt tone deaf and like AYITL forgot and got confused about so much of what the show was so good at. It forgot its own priorities and why we all loved it. I cannot believe Jess wouldn't be at Luke's wedding. And sure they'll get married again in daylight for everyone i guess but. We don't even get to see it so how does that even count? I always felt a special connection to Jess because i was raised by a mother who was awful in her own ways. And i was always very drawn to any acknowledgement on TV that mothers can be awful. I also have always wanted to become a foster parent one day since before i saw Gilmore Girls in my teenage years. And Luke is essentially a kinship foster parent taking in his teenage nephew as his guardian and i have always been drawn to these kinds of storylines. So i was bound to love this part of the show. I read whatever fanfiction i could find at the time over a decade ago that centered moments between these two in a purely familial way. I thought about them a lot. I think there is such a richness in the way the dynamics all overlap and intertwine when you add in rooting for both Lorelai/Luke and Rory/Jess as romantic endgame. There is so much to every dynamic between these 4 characters. 😊

A great video. Thank u

Jess's best relationship on the show was with Luke.

I love your videos but I love them even more every time you throw Buffy in them....lol YES!!!

The reason why I love Gimore Girls. Nos because of them (Lorelai is great not get me wrong) but because of these two. I really really love that Jess suggests the book to Rory in the spin of. Full circle.

I adore luke xD Id date him in a heartbeat if i was a charecter. Weirdly i never liked jess but always liked how similar he was to Luke. Normally parents of charecters come onto sitcoms and have to mimic charecters. But i love that jess is someone younger coming on and doing that

I agree!

Love then

Good video 👍

14:11 and kirk says to nicolle "they have amazing communication"

Jess has such an amazing character arc. He is an emotinally abused kid without parental support, when he comes to stars hollow. His mother just abondonded him. And everyone there just acts like a 16 year old traumatised BOY should act all grateful. Like... of cause he acted up. Of cause he makes mistakes. He flunks school, because he feels like working his ass off outside of school will be more beneficial, because college doesn't seem like a viable option. Luke tries, he tries so hard, but of cause, he makes mistakes, because he literally has no experience with kids. He just tries to do the right thing and gets shit on from literally everyone around him. But the hard work pays off for both of them. Jess starts feeling safe. And as soon as he's over the weird hormonal teenage drama (and obviously being able to work on his Trauma) he does the work. He works on healing himself,he works on bettering his situation and reaps success. So does Luke. He works on his relationship with Lorelei (with all the ups and downs). And they both succeed. And they both have found family and safety in eachother. It's such a beautiful story. I always say but, it's just so true: platonic relationships are pretty much always better in any type of media.

Taylor and luke 😭😂

Jess is such a great character with a potential story arc that was scrapped when the network didnt okayed the spinoff series (Jess in LA) that's why instead of just being written off we actually follow him to meet his dad and his partner in LA. Unlike Trsten (Chad Michael Murray) was written off for him to go to One Three Hill and David (Adam Brody) went to make the OC. Then Milo Ventimiglia went on to make Heroes (Bedford DIaries first then Heroes...) ASP wrote his character arc off screen from no good punk to just a punk, to dead end job struggling to get by, to a bohemian writer, to full fledged artist/writer. Too bad that Milo is so successful as an actor I think it robbed us an opportunity to see him in a more active role in the revival. I think he was very busy with This is Us.

Are you planning on doing a video on Paris or Emily 🤔

Luke is the best

I think people do not recognise enough what a bad mother Liz was. Especially because she was portrayed as such a nice and sweet character (although rather simple-minded) when shown in the series. Only from what is said of Jess one can puzzle together, that she did not care much about making a safe home for Jess but more about her own wishes. So Jess' behaviour made perfect sense and for him still come around and develop so greatly, when there finally was someone who cared about him, was a strong thing to do. Especially in comparison to Rory, who had so much support and love and ended quite self-centered.

Seriously the best relationship on the show. Conflict and growth, all of which was organic. And as a bonus, the only relationship whose growth carries into the revival (although I pretty much disregard the revival's existence.)

Jess had the best grow up.

Jess accuses her of sleeping with Luke because he's defensive, I think Lorelai tried way too hard to get him involved....people need an adjustment period

Idk why Lorelei expected to have 1 nice talk with Jess and for him to have a total change of heart. She gives a cheesy shallow pep talk then calls him "beyond screwed" when it doesnt work. She tries sooo hard to be the "cool Mom".

Certainly! Here's the corrected version: Seeing Jess begging his own father for a place to sleep for a few days was so heartbreaking.

What I find so interesting is how OBSERVANT Jess is (probably due to him being neglected most of his childhood). He is very good at assessing relationships and people and can easily twist the knife in the insecurities of people if he wants to. That's why Lorelai cannot really handle him - Jess sees right through her bullshit tbh. But Luke still puts in the work because he sees that this boy has been hurt by the world before and that is probably something he can really relate to.

That girl doing a round off at 2:47ish is very intense if you watch it at a faster speed. 1.25 at least.

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Sorry, I am commenting a lot on your videos because KZfaq keeps showing them to me as I am a very long term Gilmore Girls viewer. I started watching it at a very turning point in my life and the relationship between Emily and Lorelei reminded me my mother and me, so something incredibly familiar almost word for word. Anyway to come back to Jess and Luke. Jess becomes calmer and more loving towards Luke little by little after having the opportunity to interact with his real father played by Rob Estes. I think that Jess could finally understand why his father had left. It had nothing to do with himself, nothing to do with Liz, it’s just because of Jimmy only. Jess could also do the comparison with Luke. Luke acted like a real father with all his imperfections, but it came from a very paternal intention. With maturity, Jess could finally understand where it was coming from, he had to work and count only on himself after leaving, and suddenly he realized how much Luke did for him. I think that Jess was too clever and too well read to have a traditional career. It’s not always the most graduated ones who succeed the best, it can help but it’s not guaranteed. I really like Jess character, contrarily to Lorelei (for once), I think that Jess was the best boyfriend for Rory, in spite of the accident which was an accident. And of course I absolutely love Luke character even if he is not always the best with Lorelei, but it’s never really mean. Jimmy in Santa Monica told Jess that he loved so much the Santa Monica/Venice Beach that he could marry it. I told that to my sons years ago before even watching Gilmore Girls. I can relate to many things in this series. The writers are exceptional in all the seasons.

Don't you think that they made Liz like unlikeable and over the sudden she was marvelous? I always hate that.

I think Jess is very similar to Luke

My fiancé thinks you are feeding a script into AI to speak it. Is that true? Or are you editing your voice at all?

wait wouldn’t luke and lorelai getting married make rory and jess related?

idk this video seems like a bit of a reach and it ignores all the shitty stuff between them, pretending like they had this unspoken bond from the start, when they didnt. They grew a lot in the show, and are very similar, and in the end Jess matures and Luke is proud; but their relationship was very strained.

I hate liz, lets be so fr

help at first I thought this was an ai voice